http://msnucleus.org/membership/storybooks/zoom3.html


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HOMEWORK Calendar (check for homework)


Lucidchart (for concept maps)


10 ways to spot fake news

Easy Bib resources for identifying credible websites


How to cite a meme

Websites with images and music that you can use in projects

Lost the documents? Don't know what to do?

Class handouts are uploaded to Google Classroom. Send an email to me if you have any questions

Try Sporcle!

http://www.sporcle.com/contributed/science


Massachusetts Science and Technology standards for grades 6-8



Coding websites



SciStarter Citizen Scientist Ideas


NASA Climate Kids (link)

Build a fish


Ocean challenge puzzle



class policy

grading policy

MCAS Practice(Jefferson Labs)
http://www.jognog.com/TowerDetail/302-8th-Grade-MCAS-Science-I

Content Review

http://freerice.com/category
http://www.cellsalive.com/cells/cell_model.htm


Does hot water freeze faster than cold water?



Hurricane season
http://sphere.ssec.wisc.edu/20121029/

http://www.globe.gov/explore-science/student-zone/overview

Surfing for change

http://www.surfingforchange.com/

Math connection!

Hexaflexagon part 1


Hexaflexagon part 2


Ocean Salinity


NBC learn

How (old) tvs work

Higgs-Boson explained (NOVA)

Scientific American on Higgs Boson

PBS

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/

Watch Nova Science NOW (Science Tuesdays!)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/



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Ocean Salinity

http://www.eco-company.tv/video/eco-lingo-ocean-salinity

Hour of code links
Tynker


Parent guide to Universal Design for Learning (UDL)


High School Placement Information

Ongoing STEM learning opportunities for students


Bottle Flipping Boston Globe Article

MADE WITH CODE PROJECTS





classzone
AUDIO READINGS
Click here for audio readings of the book



Content Review
click here
(change the view settings if the book looks small)

1. choose "Integrated Course 3"
2. choose "The Changing Earth
3. go to the chapter that you need

Netiquette guidelines

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsmJn9kzXlk&feature=related

http://www.networketiquette.net/studentk12.html

class policy and syllabus

grading policy



Notebooks and Binders:

Notebooks: keep and use in class

Binders: use four dividers-

1. Homework (keep homework here)

2. classwork and notes (keep classwork and notes for studying)

3. tests and quizzes (keep tests and quizzes)

4. vocabulary (all vocabulary assignments)

field guides


http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/

Make your own computer game (Khan academy video)



Online gaming design course for ages 9-14 this fall


http://gamestarmechanic.com/onlinelearning



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Staples Rewards information:

http://d3t8smjxoy25sp.cloudfront.net/staplesbts/pdf/Teacher_Editable.pdf

School closings


http://www.wcvb.com/weather/closings


http://boston.cbslocal.com/closings/


NOAA weather for Groton

National Hurricane Center

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/



High School Placement Information




https://www.zooniverse.org/




http://www.wordle.net/

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USGS Earthquake location map
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/region/N_America.php

http://www.gamequarium.org/dir/Gamequarium/Science/Earth_Science/

http://msnucleus.org/membership/storybooks/zoom3.html

Weather Station Portal

http://achieve.weatherbug.com/

NOAA weather for Groton




MCAS Practice



MCAS Problem of the Day
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current frameworks: http://www.doe.mass.edu/frameworks/current.htm



NASA Sea level watch and Climate Change Link

http://climate.jpl.nasa.gov/



http://pbskids.org/designsquad/parentseducators

interactives links
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/index.htm



Animations from: The Animation Library


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Defintion: an object or event’s age in relation to other objects or events; Characteristics—does not give a specific date or time, sometimes it is as general as just “before” or “after”; Examples: younger brother, older sister, older rocks; Nonexamples: 5 years old, 1.2 million years old
2. layer B
3. Igneous rock can push up into sedimentary rock layers from below, disturbing the layers, or igneous rock can flow out on top of the layers, covering the older layers with younger igneous rock.
4. top row: a drawing of a particular index fossil; middle row: a sentence using the term; bottom row: fossils of organisms that were common, lived in many areas, and existed during a certain span of time
5. The rock layer would be between 206 and 248 million years old; that is the time this kind of sea animal lived.
6. the actual age of an event or object; determining the age of rocks
7. to describe certain kinds of elements and to date both rocks and fossils; example: Uranium-235 has a half-life of 704 million years.
8. The calculated age would be older than the actual age of the rock itself. Sandstone is a sedimentary rock, which is made up of older rocks, so the age the geologist calculated would be older than the age of the sandstone.
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